Life Quotes

Benjamin johnson - it is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make...
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.
Calvin Trillin
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Friedrich nietzsche - without music, life would be a mistake....
Mary asto - life without emotions is like an engine without...
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Dr. Robert Schulle
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn
Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.
Overheard in Palo Alto...
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
Edward Irving Koch
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
Gustave Flaubert
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it? three minutes; to collect the data in it? all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Unknown
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesa
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann von Goethe
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Marilyn Ferguson
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.
Native American Prove
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love - Enjoy It.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba